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My friends and I love pizza. Can you help us share these pizzas equally?

Doughnut

How can you cut a doughnut into 8 equal pieces with only three cuts of a knife?

Pies

Grandma found her pie balanced on the scale with two weights and a quarter of a pie. So how heavy was each pie?

Fun Time

Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level

Try working backwards:
What fraction of the total time for the cinema and shopping is the $10$ minutes of shopping?
So how long did they spend in total watching the film and shopping?
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